It’s the last thing you want to hear before heading off for a relaxing afternoon poolside, but here goes: Don’t think of it as swimming. Think of it as taking a bath with a few hundred strangers.So how can you minimize the chances of getting what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention delicately refers to as “recreational water illnesses”?

I still remember my first glimpse of Lake Tahoe, more than a decade ago. I’d lived all my life in the East and South, and whenever anybody talked about Lake Tahoe, their descriptions tended to begin and end with “It’s beautiful.” It seemed pretty...

Every now and then, 43 years ago exhibits its impact all over again.Every now and then, the fruits of Title IX demonstrate their importance for women’s sports in the United States.Take a certain soccer match in Montreal on Tuesday.

“Unacceptable,” is how President François Hollande of France describes current revelations regarding extensive spying by the United States government. Wikileaks files regarding France published in June reveal the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)...

The art of layering a garden is a special talent. Rarely do you plant an entire garden bed all at once and then walk away. Truth be told, this is a process whereby you put down the first layer, walk away for a while and come back and add to it. Over...

Arthur L. Hicks Jr., 17, was facing two possible scenarios with the guilty verdict. The first being life without the possibility of parole or life with the possibility of parole in 28 years. Due to Arkansas law, the use of a firearm, which the jury...

When British filmmaker Asif Kapadia set out to make “Amy,” a documentary about British jazz-pop singer Amy Winehouse, who died of alcohol poisoning in 2011 at the age of 27, he didn’t know much about her. He was a fan of her two albums “Frank” and...

This mountain biker was riding through Canada Olympic Park in Alberta when he came to a road that went right through the biking trail. With an SUV stopped at the stop sign, the biker thought it would stop for him.